that

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Description

1. I am well acquainted with this tale, but do not remember that one.2. I know this man, but I do not know that one.

Demonstrative pronoun with adjectival functions. Not to be confused with ‘another’. A complex case, since in a great part of the world’s languages the pronominal systems of spatial deixis are much more complex than the binary opposition this ~ that in Modern English. Such systems can include several degrees of proximity (both on the horizontal and vertical axis), references to the location of the speaker and the addressee, or indication of some special features of the object (e.g., animate/inanimate or visible/invisible). It is recommended to try to reveal the most basic binary opposition between ‘this’ (close) and ‘that’ (far away). If this is completely impossible, several (standardly three) pronouns should be listed as synonyms. (Kassian et al. 2010)